Facilities in Verbier

A top Alpine sports centre in all respects, not just for the winter variety, Verbier is one of the world's best sites for hang gliding and parascending. If you do well in your first lesson you might like to try the legendary challenge of flying 180km (112 miles) non-stop from Verbier, round Mont Blanc and back. Paragliders will also find big air heaven here with one club and two schools. There is one toboggan run, a lengthy 10km ( 6 miles) long, from Savoleyres to La Tzoumaz: information is available from the lift company.

The resort's Multiports Centre contains a 25 metre indoor pool with whirlpool, sauna, solarium and steam baths, two squash courts, a 60 metre ice rink, ice hockey rink and three curling lines. There is another indoor pool and more exercise equipment in the Mondzeu Fitness centre. Horse riders have their own centre and anyone wishing to bring their horse with them on vacation will find stables available to rent there during the summer months.

Other facilities include a theatre, two video rental stores (English and French language films to hire) and there is a village museum in the new Hameau cultural complex containing memorabilia of furniture and tools as well as of winter sports, past and present.